electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-08b1-noc-nb-sdg-indicator-8-b-1-existence-of-a-developed-and-o

SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for yo | Asia (ILOSTAT)

🌏 169 observations · 45 Asia countries · 2019–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 169 observations of Employment data across 45 Asia countries, spanning 2019–2025, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Employment

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=SDG_08B1_NOC_NB and filtered to Asia ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

45 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
AZE	7	2019	2025
CHN	7	2019	2025
THA	7	2019	2025
VNM	7	2019	2025
JPN	7	2019	2025
PHL	7	2019	2025
KHM	6	2019	2025
KOR	6	2020	2025
TUR	6	2019	2025
GEO	6	2019	2025
ARM	6	2019	2025
KGZ	5	2019	2025
IDN	5	2019	2025
LKA	5	2019	2025
TKM	5	2019	2025
...	30 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• SDG_08B1_NOC_NB — SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	AFG
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Afghanistan
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	XA:16763
source.label	string	Source name in English	ILO - ILO Employment Policy Gateway
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	SDG_08B1_NOC_NB
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a d…
time	int64	Observation year	2025
obs_value	int64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	0

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-08b1-noc-nb-sdg-indicator-8-b-1-existence-of-a-developed-and-o")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["ref_area"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_08B1_NOC_NB"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="SDG_08B1_NOC_NB")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_08B1_NOC_NB"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_ilo_sdg_08b1_noc_nb_sdg_indicator_8_b_1_existence_of_a_developed_and_o_2025,
  title        = {SDG indicator 8.b.1: Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for yo | Asia (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_08B1_NOC_NB},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-08b1-noc-nb-sdg-indicator-8-b-1-existence-of-a-developed-and-o}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_08B1_NOC_NB